Yes, here is the deal. Reagan did not take anyone's crap. He did not compromise with the Soviets, terrorists nor the dems. He controlled the entire enviroment, the dems hated him but they respected him and he basically bullied them. Someone mentioned he worked with the dems, lol, yeah, under his terms..
Look, Reagan was the most conservative president in the history of the US, save Washington and Lincoln of course. These fools who are running for the GOP are nominal conservatives, maybe, Newt is a little more of a constitutionalist than the other two. But this litmus test you speak of is a catchphrase, a slogan, political rhetoric to garner public support...
Reagan would have done it his way. Newt and Santorum try to emulate Reagan, Paul is out in left field taking a crap. He talks a big game but he forgets there is something called seperation of powers, which only Reagan was able to transcend above, heck, he still has I think one or two Justices still in the Supreme Court he appointed..
Hard-line rhetoric, uncompromsing ideology, and being a staunch, and unmoving ideologue made Reagan great... to throw up bias links and generalize about his presidency is absurd.. There is so much to it, it would take a lot of time to gather all the primary facts and come up with the most probabilities- I work in an enviroment where 90% of the people are ultra left, now they are conceding that Reagan was really, and truly a great president.
These fools who are running for GOP and Obama would not last 2 minustes debating Reagan. Google: The Reagan/Mondale debate.. lolololololololol -